Do streams on Black Podcast Directory count toward my podcast's download stats?

It depends on how your episode is being served. When someone listens on Black Podcast Directory, we try to serve the audio as fast as possible for the listener. For some episodes we keep a copy on our own servers to do that, and when that is the case, the play comes from our infrastructure instead of your podcast host. That means it will not show up as a download in your Buzzsprout, Captivate, RSS.com, or similar dashboard.

For episodes where we do not have a cached copy yet, the audio streams directly from your original feed, and those plays do register as downloads with your host.

Either way, real listeners are hearing your show. If your podcast is part of a network or uses a tracking prefix from a service like Podtrac or Chartable, the plays that go through our servers will not be captured by those either. We are working on ways to improve this over time.